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23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

region are starting to pull back from their welfare state philosophies and encourage the privatization of the economies. These are gradual changes. The governments are trying to minimize social disruptions. But the broad implication is... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

Podcast with: Joseph Bower Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 8 min., 23 sec. In early September, Ford Motor Company announced that Bill Ford would be replaced as CEO by Boeing's Alan Mulally, credited with the turnaround of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

the US economy? A: The immediate direct impact on the real economy is measurable but modest. About 800,000 people are now taking unpaid days off, and they are generally people of middle- or upper-middle- class incomes, so they are spenders who will have to cut View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

probabilities below present values," adding that failing to do so could lead to losses upwards of $1 trillion annually. "Most skeptics I have come across are not skeptical of global warming or climate change itself, but argue that we don't have data going far View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

thrive? Bhaskar Chakravorti: Let me start with a replay of a conversation I had recently with Frederick, the person who runs the auto repair shop where I regularly take my 1998 and 2002 vintage cars. I asked him if he was experiencing a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

Unfortunately, most people—especially busy managers and executives—fall back on System 1 thinking during their negotiations. Reliance on intuition increases when a situation is complex and negotiators reach a state of cognitive overload.... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

refrain heard then and now, accompanied by, "The only question is when oil will hit $100 a barrel, not if." “If you have a windmill project, you can bet it will insult the aesthetic sense of some of the nearby residents.” But clearly oil prices View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

it's very, very hard to run a team-oriented process that addresses the type of decision making we've described," he added. What Software Lull? The software industry has been heavily over-invested in for the last few years, according... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

28 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

B2B Branding: Does it Work?

company's stakeholders. Efforts are focused on a single, global corporate brand rather than individual product brands. The payback on marketing expenditures is measured rigorously to the satisfaction of the hard-nosed engineers and finance staff who View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

able to see it, illustrate it, through his life. His experience in Hungary became a how-not-to-do at university. You can look at Intel and Intel culture under Andy Grove as the opposite of a great deal of what he experienced in Hungary. I went View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

individual contracts with each town or city they serve, after bidding against other cable providers for the chance to do so. They then, in turn, receive fees from broadcasters to be included in their limited channel lineup in each area. Fox News, View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

are." A for-profit enterprise has to cope not only within the nonprofit that backs it, but also within the world at large, said Toby Sherman, director of food service for Greyston Foundation. Greyston, a $13 million organization in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

much more complicated due in part to the development of mortgage brokers. The new system fueled a bevy of mortgage backed securities and derivatives that were terribly difficult for experts to comprehend, he said. Too much leverage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

11 Mar 2009
HBS Case

The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine

decision, albeit an extreme one. The context for that incident between the two countries went back years and involved at least one previous shutdown over unpaid Ukrainian bills, as well as disputed pipeline fees, unsigned contracts, bad... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Energy; Utilities

27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

political stability. How Can My Foreign Assests And Resources Be Protected? Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments After a string of forced nationalizations of private enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s, the pendulum swung back... View Details

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-066 JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool By the spring of 2014, the pilot had come to an end for JPMorgan Chase's ReEntry Program, a program designed for women... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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